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Thursday, August 29, 2013

I Do Not Believe the Greatest Threat to Our Future is from Bombs or Guided Missiles

An ominous warning was voiced by Laurence M. Gould, former president of Carleton College: “I do not believe the greatest threat to our future is from bombs or guided missiles. I don’t think our civilization will die that way. I think it will die when we no longer care. Arnold Toynbee has pointed out that 19 of 21 civilizations have died from within and not by conquest from without. There were no bands playing and flags waving when these civilizations decayed. It happened slowly, in the quiet and the dark when no one was aware.” 4

Thomas S. Monson, "Pornography, the Deadly Carrier" Ensign July 2001

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